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The Times: Statistics teach us to be sceptical about ‘Operation Moonshot’
The Times: Statistics teach us to be sceptical about ‘Operation Moonshot’

Covid maths/statistics.

Did you get the all clear in your daily cancer check this week? Of course you did not have one. Even after decades of trying it has proved extremely difficult to find regular tests that do not do more harm than good by wrongly telling healthy people they are ill. These basic statistics explain why scientists are very sceptical about Boris Johnson’s “Operation Moonshot”.

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Health, Lockdown, Media Article, Medicine, Pandemic, Science, TechnologySarah NorrisLando EducationCovid Statistics, government statistics, statistics, pandemic, Covid, Operation Moonshot, media article, tests, infectious, random, sample, mathematical, maths, science, Sage, contact tracing, lockdownComment
The Times - Warning: boomerang children don’t bring financial returns
The Times - Warning: boomerang children don’t bring financial returns

Grown children going back to live in the family house cost parents an average of £5,000 a year extra, with sons tending to cost more than daughters, pension advisers say.

Government statistics show that there are a million more young adults aged 20 to 34 living with their parents than there were 15 years ago.

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Family, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationThe Times, boomerang children, government statistics, high rents, house prices, family, parentsComment